OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Archives of Endocrinology Metabolism is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Decoding the relationship between cow’s milk proteins and development of type 1 diabetes mellitus	50
Integrated bioinformatics approach reveals methylation-regulated differentially expressed genes in obesity	32
Use of the activPAL® triaxial accelerometer to estimate total energy expenditure in low-income women: differences between body mass index classifications	30
Progeroid features in a patient with Malouf syndrome due to a rare LMNA variant: a case report and review of the literature	27
Arginine-vasopressin deficiency due to long COVID-associated infundibulo-neurohypophysitis	22
Epidemiology and risk factors of hypoglycemia in subjects with type 1 diabetes in Brazil: a cross-sectional, multicenter study	19
Comparison of bioimpedance and anthropometric estimates of body fat in patients with mild autonomous cortisol secretion and nonfunctional adrenal incidentalomas	19
Comparative diagnostic accuracy of the triglyceride/HDL-c ratio and lipid accumulation product index for the early detection of metabolic syndrome among adults with obesity in Indonesia: findings from	18
Does a three-degree hypoechogenicity grading improve ultrasound thyroid nodule risk stratification and affect the TI-RADS 4 category? A retrospective observational study	16
Clinical screening for GCK-MODY in 2,989 patients from the Brazilian Monogenic Diabetes Study Group (BRASMOD) and the Brazilian Type 1 Diabetes Study Group (BrazDiab1SG)	15
A portrait of gestational diabetes mellitus in Brazil: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1b in fraternal twins of a Chinese family: report of two cases and literature review	14
Pheochromocytoma and multicentric giant cell tumor of bone	14
Cardiorespiratory fitness in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
erratum	13
References values and predictive factors for thyroid volume in pregnant women	13
Clinical features most frequently present in patients with concomitant diabetic kidney disease and diabetic retinopathy	12
Association between psoriasis and thyroid function: results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adults Health (ELSA-Brasil)	12
Validation for Brazilian Portuguese of the Eating Behavior Phenotypes Scale (EFCA): confirmatory factor analysis and psychometric properties	11
Lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels, diabetes and age are associated with foot and ankle fracture treatment complications	11
Erratum	10
Challenges in the care and treatment of patients with extreme obesity	10
Risk factors associated with gestational transient thyrotoxicosis and their effects on the pregnancy course	10
Monocyte-to-HDL cholesterol ratio and uric acid-to-HDL cholesterol ratio as predictors of vitamin D deficiency in healthy young adults: a cross-sectional study	10
Hypercoagulability in Cushing’s syndrome: past, present, future	10

Hypoglycemia post bariatric surgery: drugs with different mechanisms of action to treat a unique disorder	10
Medical education on hospital hyperglycemia improving knowledge and outcomes	9
Association of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene variants with hyperlipidemic acute pancreatitis in southeastern Chinese population	9
Comparison of self-assessed and clinician-assessed hirsutism diagnosed according to the modified Ferriman-Gallwey scale among female outpatients in Brazil	8
Impact of genetic variation in the human leptin gene promoter on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease risk	8
Characterization of adult patients with X-linked hypophosphatemia at a specialized center in Buenos Aires, Argentina	8
Genetic or familiar forms of primary hyperparathyroidism: description of a case series with familial isolated hyperparathyroidism and review of the literature	8
Visceral adiposity indices and cardiometabolic risk markers in patients with hypertension	8
Increased levels of inflammatory markers and carotid intima-media thickness in asymptomatic patients with Sheehan syndrome without growth hormone replacement therapy	8
Glycemic and nonglycemic mechanisms of congenital malformations in hyperglycemic pregnancies: a narrative review	8
Maternal-fetal outcomes of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes treated with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion or multiple daily injections during pregnancy – A Brazilian health care referral ce	8
Usefulness of prolactin levels in predicting the etiology of hyperprolactinemia in a cohort of 770 patients	7
Type 2 diabetes morbidity, mortality and its associated risk factors across Brazilian regions: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021	7
Goodbye, idiopathic short stature: why “healthy short stature” is a necessary advancement	7
Glucose variability is a marker for COVID-19 severity and mortality	7
The hidden impact of smoking in thyroid eye disease: a link between selenium deficiency, autoimmunity, and retinal microvasculature	7
Prognostic factors in the surgical treatment of non-functioning pituitary adenomas: a retrospective cohort study	7
Long-term consequences of osteoporosis therapy with bisphosphonates	6
Prevalence of DICER1 variants in large multinodular goiter: thyroid function, clinical and imaging characteristics	6
The threshold value for identifying insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in an admixed adolescent population: A hyperglycemic clamp validated study	6
Clinical management, economic and quality-of-life impacts among consulting people with obesity in Brazil: results from a real-world survey	6
Comparative machine learning models for hypertension prediction in a cohort of patients with diabetes using routine clinical variables	6
Reversible congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism: keys for clinical management	6
Mutation distributions among patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia from five regions of Brazil: a systematic review	6
The effect of metabolic syndrome on controlled ovarian stimulation outcome in infertile women with polycystic ovary syndrome undergoing assisted reproductive technology cycles	6
Reference intervals for serum TSH concentrations of healthy children from the Central Region of Brazil	6
The molecular pathogenesis of craniopharyngiomas	6
Associations of TSH, free T3, free T4, and conversion ratio with incident hypertension: results from the prospective Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)	6
Histological findings and NAFLD/NASH Status in liver biopsies of patients subjected to bariatric surgery	6
Cyclic Cushing’s syndrome in ACTH-dependent hypercortisolism induced by the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab	6
Associations between peripheral blood whole-genome DNA methylation and obesity in young Chinese males	6
Clinical dermatoendocrinology: saving lives by looking at the skin	6
Knowledge of transgender and gender-diverse healthcare among resident physicians: A study in a northeastern Brazilian tertiary hospital	6
In the article “Dietary pattern and night work: metabolic syndrome in healthcare workers”, published in Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, DOI: 10.20945/2359-4292-2026-0047:	5
Predictive factors and risk analysis of recurrent laryngeal nerve invasion in papillary thyroid carcinoma ≤ 1 cm	5
Acute suppurative thyroiditis with Graves disease – A very rare association	5
Maternal prepregnancy obesity and gestational diabetes influence on adverse perinatal outcomes	5
Prediction for recurrence following antithyroid drug therapy for Graves’ hyperthyroidism	5
Extracellular vesicles related to familial hypercholesterolemia	5
A national survey of Brazilian endocrinologists’ practices in educating patients with adrenal insufficiency on stress-induced glucocorticoid adjustments	5
Non-invasive detection of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma after radical surgery using salivary metabolomic biomarkers	5
Accuracy of portable artificial intelligence-supported fundus camera in the screening of diabetic retinopathy in primary care	5
GLP-1 receptor agonists in kidney transplant recipients with post-transplant diabetes: efficacy and safety outcomes from a retrospective cohort study	5
Use of technologies in thyroid surgery: Latin American Thyroid Society Surgical Affairs Committee Expert Opinion. Part 1	5
MiR-195-5p regulates oxidative stress and aerobic metabolism by directly downregulating GLS2 in high glucose-induced human lens epithelial cells	5
Screening program for familial hyperchylomicronemia syndrome detection: Experience of a university health system	5
Evaluation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis during the post-COVID-19 period in patients treated with steroids during the illness	5
MicroRNAs miR-29a-3p and miR-192-5p: promising urinary biomarkers for kidney function loss	5
A case of familial partial lipodystrophy type 2 masquerading as Cushing syndrome: Explaining an atypical phenotype by whole-exome sequencing	5
Knowledge about diabetes and its association with adherence to self-care and glycemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes in Southern Brazil	5

A paradigm shift in nutritional clinical practice: filling a gap on the implementation of the Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population	4
Portuguese version of the Literacy Independent Cognitive Assessment (LICA) instrument in the evaluation of individuals aged 50 years or older with Itabaianinha syndrome	4
Challenging the recessive paradigm of Mahvash disease: heterozygous phenotypes from a novel splice-site variant	4
Use of transient elastography for hepatic steatosis and fibrosis evaluation in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism	4
Triglyceride-glucose index is associated with poor sleep quality in apparently healthy subjects: A cross-sectional study	4
Association between the G/G genotype of the lncRNA MEG3 rs7158663 polymorphism and proliferative diabetic retinopathy	4
A young boy with ventricular arrhythmias and thyroid dysgenesis: two genes are not enough?	4
Hypophosphatasia: from birth to adulthood	4
Comment on suspicious for malignancy cytology: nuclear characteristics deserve special attention in reported cytology analysis – real-world scenario cohort in thyroidology	4
Development and validation of the clinical report form for nodular thyroid pathologies	4
Carbohydrate counting as a strategy to optimize glycemic control in type 1 diabetes mellitus	4
Triiodothyronine (T3) increases the expression of the amphiregulin (AREG) oncogene by activating extranuclear pathways in MCF-7 breast cancer cells	4
Podocytopathies associated with familial partial lipodystrophy due to LMNA variants: report of two cases	4
Effects of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on the metabolic control of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients	4
Curcumin supplementation reduces blood glucose and serum lipids of Brazilian women with high waist circumference: a randomized clinical trial	4
Genetic alterations of telomere maintenance pathways in paragangliomas	4
Treatment of hyperprolactinemia in women: A Position Statement from the Brazilian Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Associations (Febrasgo) and the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabol	4
Age-related changes in METS-IR and HOMA-IR in obese adults and their relationship with cardiometabolic comorbidities	4
Effects of a cardioprotective nutritional program on apolipoproteins and lipids in secondary cardiovascular disease prevention	4
Similar hypothyroid and sepsis circulating mRNA expression could be useful as a biomarker in nonthyroidal illness syndrome: a pilot study	4
Impact of fasting on lipid profile assessment of Brazilian adults	4
Machine learning for high-risk hospitalization prediction in outpatient individuals with diabetes at a tertiary hospital	4
Morningness/eveningness in gestational diabetes mellitus: clinical characteristics and maternal-neonatal outcomes	4
Cyclical and seasonal variations in the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus between 1985 and 2016 in Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil	4
Eveningness and preeclampsia in gestational diabetes – a response to the letter “Chronotype of pregnant women with diabetes mellitus: what is the relationship with maternal and fetal outcomes”	4
Effects of a high-protein, low-glycemic-index diet on body weight and waist circumference in late postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial	4
Differentiated thyroid carcinoma: what the nonspecialists needs to know	4
Response to the letter to the editor: Stress-induced hyperglycemia and expression of glucose cell transport genes in skeletal muscle of critically ill patients: a cross-sectional study	3
Investigation of the molecular genetic causes of non-syndromic primary ovarian ınsufficiency by next generation sequencing analysis	3
Microscopic testicular sperm extraction in 46, XY differences in sex development caused by 5-alpha reductase type 2 deficiency	3
Association of age and insulin resistance with sex hormone-binding globulin levels in healthy men	3
Evaluation of three inflammation-associated blood indices for predicting malignancy in thyroid nodules	3
Epidemiological profile of neuroendocrine tumors in adults in Brazil	3
The triglyceride-glucose index as an indicator of insulin resistance and cardiometabolic risk in Brazilian adolescents	3
Expression of somatostatin receptors in hemangioblastomas associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease as a novel diagnostic, therapeutic, and follow-up opportunity: A case report and literature review	3
Gluten-free diets for metabolic control of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
MicroRNA expression signatures associated with metastatic progression in papillary thyroid carcinoma	3
Death cause and age at death among individuals with diabetes: a 40-year retrospective Brazilian study	3
Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced endocrinopathies: a possible indicator of improved survival	3
Resting energy expenditure depends on energy intake during weight loss in people with obesity: a retrospective cohort study	3
Comment on: “Diabetic retinopathy and diabetic kidney disease, either isolated or associated, impact on the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease: are we dealing with similar conditions?”	3
Active surveillance of papillary thyroid carcinoma in Latin America: a scoping review	3
Association between personality factors and health-related quality of life in type 1 diabetes patients	3
Assessment of body composition, quality of life, and depression in women with polycystic ovary syndrome	3
Polymorphisms in TIE2 and ANGPT-1 genes are associated with protection against diabetic retinopathy in a Brazilian population	3
Association between the aromatase (CYP19A1) gene variant rs10046 and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women	3
Assessment of thiol-disulfide and glutathione homeostasis after levothyroxine replacement in individuals with autoimmune or nonautoimmune hypothyroidism	3
Vitamin D in the elderly: the phil-rouge in preventing bone, muscle and adipose deterioration?	3
Severe hypothyroidism as a trigger for Brugada-type ECG abnormalities: a case report and literature review	3
The medical and scientific legacy of Juan José Gagliardino	3
Graves’ disease with normal or heterogeneous 99mTc uptake: insights into the atypical scintigraphy patterns	3
GDF-15 levels in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome treated with metformin: a combined clinical and in silico pathway analysis	3
Higher C-reactive protein/albumin ratio is a potential marker for predicting amputation in patients with diabetic foot infection	3
NADPH oxidase 5 is a novel susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes mellitus	3
Response to the letter to the editor: Metabolic comorbidities and post-transplant outcomes in Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD): a cohort study from a Brazilian tertiary	3
Risk predictors of advanced hepatic fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease – a survey in a university hospital in Brazil	3
RAAS in diabetic retinopathy: mechanisms and therapies	3
Response to the comment on “Diagnostic value of a computer-assisted diagnosis system for the ultrasound features in thyroid nodules”	3
MOTS-C levels ın ındividuals with and without obesity and ıts association with ınflammation, insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction	3
Audiological alterations in resistance to thyroid hormone syndrome: emphasizing lifelong assessment	3
Obesity in Brazil: 214 million reasons to act	3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of central precocious puberty: A PRISMA-ScR-COMPLIANT scoping review	3
Association between triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and new-onset diabetes mellitus	3
Altered thiol/disulfide homeostasis in patients with diabetes mellitus and its chronic complications	3
The extent of extranodal extension as a prognostic indicator in papillary thyroid cancer	3
An unusual presentation of hypopituitarism caused by a sellar aneurysm	3
Accuracy of novel anthropometric indices for assessing the risk for progression of prediabetes to diabetes; 13 years of results from Isfahan Cohort Study	3
Iodine nutritional status is not a direct factor in the prevalence of the BRAFV600E mutation in papillary thyroid cancer	3
Phenotypic and molecular reanalysis of a cohort of patients with monogenic diabetes reveals a case of partial lipodystrophy due to the A8344G mutation in the mitochondrial DNA	3
Severe hypercalcemia caused by repeated mineral oil injections: a case report	3
Higher consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with disordered eating symptoms and low-quality diet in adults with obesity	3
Ultrasound in cervical traumatic neuromas after neck dissection in thyroid carcinoma patients: descriptive analysis and diagnostic accuracy	3